Biconical urn

Description

Biconical urn with rounded shoulders and large rim. A bronze decoration created using little studs used to decorate the body of this specimen, but it is now entirely lost. However, the vessel still preserves a series of impressions where the stubs were fixed that help to reconstruct the original decoration pattern. This kind of vessel was common in the territory of the ancient town of Atheste (now Este, near Padua, Italy) and was used as funerary urn. The same type was rare in Padua.